For my senior portfolio class I've been working on a fake cover for Cereal:Geek magazine. Its' a magazine that specializes in animation from the 1980s. The theme for my fake issue is Girl's Cartoons of the 1980's. I was a child of the 90's, while I was exposed to 80's cartoons I still missed out on a lot of them that my friends who have lived in the US their whole lives grew up with.
For this project I did some research to find the most popular and well loved girl's toons of that era. I found Rainbow Bright, She-Ra, Lady Lovely Locks, and JEM. I LOVE JEM. I had heard of her but never seen the show before. After some searching on YouTube my room mate and I watched a playlist of Jem 'music videos' from the show. I love the animation, and the styling, and the music is actually really fun. I wish I could have dressed up as Jem for Halloween. Maybe next year... I also added toons from my own childhood in My Little Pony, Care Bears, Strawberry Shortcake, and Bianca from Beverly Hills Teens. (I enjoyed that last show more than I should have :P)
I ran through some scenarios for the cover including a slumber party, arm wrestling, and a reunion. I decided to go with the reunion scenario and try to portray the characters as if they and aged since the 80's.

Here is my value study, line work, and the finished cover.




I had fun doing this, but I'm also glad its' done :P My mom caught a mistake on it and I thought I'd have to start over part of it but I was able to fix it.

Now I'm off to have dinner. Have a good weekend everyone!
I'll have a new illustration to share when I get back!

Pictures and Plans

Here's a few new 'finished' pieces from Deviantart that I've done recently.
I love markers <3


Super Friends by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART

Here's a new character I'm developing as a villain for my half elf Kale. She still doesn't' have a name yet.

I wanna be evil I wanna be bad by ~Spork-Bunny on deviantART

So after this weekend I've got four more weeks at school. It's a little worrying because I wanted to redo a few design projects and touch up some drawing projects so I'm gonna have to manage my time wisely. I've also written up a schedule for when I'm taking what objects home from my dorm. It pays to organize, even though dad says "do it all at once, that's what I got the truck for!" :P

I also got a new sketchbook! (always happy news) It's a bigger hardcover, thicker than I usually get, sketchbook so I'm hoping it lasts a little longer than the micron pen books I've been getting. (They're nice but pretty thin so I go through them quickly).
I also want to decorate it but I'm not sure what to put on it yet. The cover is textured so it might not take stickers so well...

To do this weekend:
+ work on book jacket project
+ prime canvas and do color tests for painting
+ finish Alex's T-shirt design sketches and prepair for scanning
+ tweak previous design poster project (get it printed?)


I've also been thinking about my plans for the summer.
(without job)
+ work on Clayton Chronicles comic
+ do Cubeecraft toys of whole Clayton Chronicles cast
+ finish bookmarks from last summer and do new ones
+ work on layouts for Clockwork Queen
+ research getting web-space/web-page
+ Do downloadable wallpapers for comics
+ save up money for an 11"x17" scanner (almost there!)
+ Start working on pitch packet for Clayton Chronicles
+ Rework Clockwork Queen pitch packet
(with job)
+ work on Clayton Chronicles
+ research getting web-space
+ save up for scanner and other tools
+ CWQ layouts?
+ Start working on pitch packet for Clayton Chronicles

That's the plan

Cube Vision

I seem to be updating the VCU blog more often this one now D: But that just means I don't have as much time for personal arts, however I do have a photo of an assignment for my software class that I just finished. I had to make an original Cubeecraft paper toy so I made one of Clayton from Clayton Chronicles. I'm pretty proud of it (the cutting job could have been a bit better but overall it's a good first try) so this means that I want to make the whole cast now... lets hope I can at least make a few :P



I think I'll also make a fully 3-dimensional version of his hat. This flat one does not please me :/ As I make them I'll post the templates so people can download them and make them themselves.

I'm also still working on my black and white art book (finished 2/24 illustrations so far) and I'm doing layouts for the first chapter of Clayton Chronicles. Hopefully I'll get a class on how to make a website so I can make one for the comic. I'm also hoping to finish the first chapter of CC this summer (fully inked and everything). I think it'll be great practice, plus it needs to get started!

I'm also open for commissions!
All my info is found here!

Sequential Homework

I finally got photobucket to load something :/ Here is the lettering homework I had. The pencil art belongs to Andrew G. and the characters are from 'The Tick'. I wonder who's page I get to ink... I'll know tomorrow. Hopefully then I can upload more stuff to photoshop. (Please don't give any crit on the art, its' not mine. so there)
It was hard to letter this at first but it's a lot easier to do now ^_^ The Ames lettering guied is the rubix cube of sequential art. true story.

Weekend Update

Here's some projects I've been working on this weekend:

For Intro to Sequential I had to do a comic page of pencil drawings to go along with a page of script that I was given. The script was about ninjas and was so terrible that I couldn't take it seriously. So the ninjas are now little fluffy animals.



For Drawing for Storyboarding we had to finish this three point perspective establishing shot for a series of storyboards will be doing later.



I am also entering a villain contest on Deviant Art http://andrewdickman.deviantart.com/
wish me luck!

I've wanted to get an ID case for about a year now so I can carry around my bussiness cards and for when I collect them from other people/stores. I really want this one:

http://www.victoriantradingco.com/store/catalogimages/6f/i2876.html

I wanted to get one that had my personality all over it and I think it's very classy.

I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend! <3